IT’S quite amazing. Sensible adults who have learned the
lesson that drinking and driving is four times as likely to
put you in an accident have yet to comprehend that talk-
ing on a cellphone while driving increases the risk of acci-
dent by at Jeast the same factor. If it is just the threat of
blowing for a friendly roadside policeman that has
reduced the incidence of drunk driving and not common
sense, then perhaps it is legislation on cellphones that is

reporter

needed and not the educational approach of the current
batch of ICBC advertisements. You know the ones: read-
ing a newspaper or talking on a cellphone while biking

blithely through pedestrians. The message says you wouldn't do it on a bike so don’t
do it in a motor vehicle. But is that message getting through? Not according to B.C.‘s
doctors who last week passed a resolution at the annual meeting of the B.C. Medical
Association asking the government to enact legislation prohibiting cellphone use while
driving. It’s already the law in Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Israel, New Zealand
and parts of Australia. Whether or not the law is changed in B.C. "keep your hands free
while driving. In the words of columnist Shaun Conlin: Don’t be a bonehead. Be safe!

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Cliff Beattie

North Vancouver

While driving, ves. I use one
myself and Pve been guilty.
But it is most definitely dan-
gerous. 1 would definitely
ban them unless they were a
hands-free type.

Great Tapp

West Vancouver

That’s a tricky one. | would-
n't go so far as to ban them,
they do perform a_ useful
function. Maybe if they used
the hands-free system... Bur
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ing guard and you have no
idea how many people
would use one while driving.
It used to make me so
annoyed.

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North Vancouver

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Cypress still open for skiing

AND then there was
one.

Cypress Bowl in West
Vancouver is the only North
Shore mountain that remains
open for skiing and snow-
hoarding.

Grouse Mountain
announced Thursday that it
won't reopen this weekend.
The mountain enjoyed a
record 181-day season where
snow depths reached 973 cen-
timetres (32 feet) in April.

“It’s time to move into
summer and bring this season
to a close,” said Grouse
Mountain president Stuart
McLaughlin.

Grouse communications
manager Cheryl van Wamelen
said the mountain has an aver-
age 495 cm (16 ft.) snow
depth. She said crews have
been moving the remaining
snowpack areas on the plateau
to clear walkways. There will
be a snowboarding demonstra-
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Grouse offered free skiing
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celebrate its longest season.
But it didn’t make it to sum-
mer, like Cypress Bowl did.

The latter mountain wasn't
open Monday for the first
afternoon of the new season,
but. skiers and snowboarders
were welcomed Tuesday
morning.

“The weather closed in and
we had light rain and dense
clouds. Today we're open

again,” marketing, coordinator
Matthew Broadbent said. “It’s
totally dependent on sunshine.
As soon as the sun's out, peo-
ple come out. When the sun’s
not around, the numbers are
down.

“We're — getting good
crowds, everyone’s having a
blast. We still have 6.5 metres
of snow on the top.”

Broadbent says Cxpress has
125 centimetres (4.1 it.) of
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